Steve Jobs to unveil iOS 5, iCloud, OS X Lion at WWDC next week

Apple confirmed on Tuesday that CEO Steve Jobs will be on hand at the company’s Worldwide Developer Conference next week to unveil Apple’s next-generation software. Jobs and other Apple executives will finally take the wraps off iOS 5, the highly anticipated software update iPhone, iPad and iPod touch users around the world have been clamoring for. Among the enhancements expected to be revealed are widgets and a completely revamped notification system. Apple will also detail its new iCloud offering, and while the company did not elaborate on the offering, it is expected to be a suite of cloud-based services that will include a streaming music service backed by major record labels in the U.S. Finally, Apple said it will provide new details surrounding Lion, the eighth major release of the Mac OS X operating system. Hit the break for Apple’s full press release.

Apple to Unveil Next Generation Software at Keynote Address on Monday, June 6

CUPERTINO, California—May 31, 2011—Apple® CEO Steve Jobs and a team of Apple executives will kick off the company’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) with a keynote address on Monday, June 6 at 10:00 a.m. At the keynote, Apple will unveil its next generation software – Lion, the eighth major release of Mac OS® X; iOS 5, the next version of Apple’s advanced mobile operating system which powers the iPad®, iPhone® and iPod touch®; and iCloud®, Apple’s upcoming cloud services offering.

WWDC will feature more than 100 technical sessions presented by Apple engineers. Mac® developers will see and learn how to develop world-class Mac OS X Lion applications using its latest technologies and capabilities. Mobile developers will be able to explore the latest innovations and capabilities of iOS and learn how to greatly enhance the functionality, performance and design of their apps. All developers can bring their code to the labs and work with Apple engineers.

For more details, visit the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2011 website at developer.apple.com/wwdc.

Yes, BGR is the only tech site on the entire internet reporting this story. The ONLY one.

Fashosbest

Stop reading BGR if you can’t stand them so much. Engadget has this story up as we speak, I was on that site before here so it seems BGR isn’t the only site and I’m sure there’s more. Get a damn life, the hating is getting old.

Bob

Engadget does it better.

Roguefromnyc

The telling people to stop reading this site bull is getting old too the same way ur tired if reading people calling this site bias. Is the same way I’m tired of u telling them to not come here gtfo

Anonymous

Apparently I should have used the sarcasm tag.

http://pulse.yahoo.com/_JNKVTT7PJMXPYP2GVCIERBQQCU Andrew

How exactly is reporting that Jobs will be at WWDC hanging on Jobs’ nuts? I mean it is something worthy of reporting giving that the guy has cancer and has been on leave of absence. Some of you guys are truly pathetic.

Anonymous

So who’s NuTZ sac you prefer? Cause your statement clearly indicates you have a preference.

Let the hate go. Just look the the left and you see 5 android device reviews. C’mon son. really? BGR is just Apple news? Do yourself a favor and stop entering articles about Apple. Unless its actually that you prefer to swing on Steve’s NuTZ. LMAO

Anonymous

Ya the next report will be on morons like yourself. Don’t like it don’t read it. Grow the fuc up.

Anonymous

So telling people to do the most logical thing and not read news that doesn’t interest them means he should grow the fuc up? But people who want to bash everything Apple like the insane Engadget fandroids foaming about Apple is sane and rational and Ok?

http://twitter.com/mistercarter7 Mike Gonzalez

Google… you better be ready to get slayed in every department you think you good at

John

:yawn:

Anonymous

icloud will be limited to music purchased on itunes – and that will render the service useless for the large majority of folks out there that download from other sources (or create their own music).

I wonder if the term ‘magical’ will be used during the keynote?

Anonymous

Source? Last I read it covers all music and the fee for the service is a way for the labels to make some money back off the pirated music sitting on hard drives across the Country.

Anonymous

It was in a Gizmodo post [I really don’t want to look for it]. It may be rumored and really makes much sense considering Apple’s existing business model. I suppose we will have to see on June 6th.

In the meantime, I’d highly recommend hosting from your own PC vs. using the cloud. AudioGalaxy, Subsonic, etc.

Anonymous

I’ve heard conflicting rumors.

Further, I sincerely doubt iCloud will be limited to music. I expect it will not only replace MobileMe, but also utilize the built-in WebDAV publishing capabilities of Lion to link and sync wirelessly OS X and iOS.

I expect all content to be “ghost synced” where you can view it on any linked device and then download specific files to a local device in an ad hoc manner.

http://twitter.com/FrankJL_ Francisco J. Lopez

Google is an ad company. They try to be good at iother things to stay relevant.

But in reality when it comes down to facts. Google docs sucks compared to MS Office.
Android is not as fluid as IOS and lacks appeal
Google TV is their first apple TV. (FLOP)
They have failed miserably at every attempt to be social.
I can go on.

Anonymous

Android lacks appeal? If you’re an iOS user, that’s not a surprise. But to say that it lacks appeal in general is just… wrong. It’s objectively wrong. If it lacks appeal, how is it selling so well? I don’t want to assume that you’re just an iPhone user and, therefore, someone who reflexively hates everything Google. But if you’re not one of those actors, you’re certainly reading from the same script.

Anonymous

The people who post on online forums are not an accurate representation of the public as a whole. Many people I know who have purchased Android phones could care less what OS was on it, and just wanted a phone that could do “basically what an iPhone does, but [cheaper, on my carrier, etc]”.

There are people who legitimately prefer Android to iOS and have valid reasons, but to equate the feelings of an internet message board with the consumer market at a whole is foolish; in reality, I doubt there are that many rabid Android fans compared to the number of people who just wanted a phone.

Anonymous

@Pendergast:disqus Even if we admit that your assertion is true*, that people only use Android because they want a cheaper version of Android… that would still demonstrate an interest in Android. It might not be the kind of interest that most of the rabid phandroids on here want to hear about, but it’s interest nonetheless.

Anecdotal evidence isn’t any kind of proof, but I’ve never talked to someone who got Android because they wanted iOS but couldn’t swing it. The people I know who wanted iOS are on it, one way or another. The people who use Android enjoy Android. I’m sure you’ve got just as much anecdotal evidence proving that everyone you know who is on Android only uses it because they can’t afford AT&T/VZW.

*I do not accept as true that the majority of people are only interested in Android because they want iOS but can’t get it.

No, they try to be good at other things because it adds to their ad revenue.

Apple tries to be good at other things to add to their hardware revenue.

I don’t see a problem with either approach.

Anonymous

My main complaint with Google’s approach is that, since they rarely monetize anything directly, everything feels like a beta. As in, I’m fine using it since it’s free, but if they started charging for it, I’d go elsewhere. I don’t enjoy using it, but its like “meh, it’s free”.

We use Gmail for work and it’s great since it’s dirt-cheap, but it’s buggy and not polished.

serpentor

No, they try to be good at other things because it adds to their ad revenue.

Apple tries to be good at other things to add to their hardware revenue.

I don’t see a problem with either approach.

Anonymous

I’m fairly certain that Google is better than Apple when it comes to search.

http://twitter.com/mistercarter7 Mike Gonzalez

yeah that’s why you can find apps oh-so-easily on the Droid market lol

Anonymous

I’m talking about search engines. I don’t know what you’re talking about. However, your statement makes it clear that I’m not talking with someone reasonable, so I won’t bother any further.
Enjoy your iPhone. I enjoyed my Droid, I enjoy my Droid 2, and I’ll enjoy my next Android device.

Anonymous

I’m talking about search engines. I don’t know what you’re talking about. However, your statement makes it clear that I’m not talking with someone reasonable, so I won’t bother any further.
Enjoy your iPhone. I enjoyed my Droid, I enjoy my Droid 2, and I’ll enjoy my next Android device.

Anonymous

Does Apple do search?

http://twitter.com/imandroid11 M

damn slow morning if i’m first

John

Ouch.

http://twitter.com/hawaiiinsomniac hawaiiinsomniac

Sweet… Looking forward to Lion. Ha ha, I hope Apple has a sweet back to school deal this year!

Corlyon

Good, and iPhone 5?

Anonymous

One more thing.

Trevor Henry

Yes>>>>>

Ricky

Awesome! I’m glad Steve’s doing well enough to be there!

Bobdonhim

Are you sure this isnt a WWDC article from LAST year like the Steve Jobs keynote one….I don’t believe anything BGR posts anymore. TERRIBLE

Zac Caslin

So you read and comment on things you don’t believe? Sounds like a boring life.

Anonymous

That’s the first thing I thought too.

Keymaker

What ever they decide to do will be Magical for sure.

guest

If flash is not dealt with on new OS, lets get the basics of flash working before moving forward!

Anonymous

Let’s not. Let’s push HTML5 video.

Anonymous

Flash? Then we would all need flashblock.

guest

Its the ability to enter websites that require flash that most people gripe about. I couldn’t care less for flash itself, but if I need to get through flash to enter a web site, then lets just have that ability. For now, I have allot of sites that I cannot enter with my Ipad and Iphone and have to wait till I get to my macbook to surf.

Anonymous

That type of Flash will never work on a touch-based mobile device it its current implementation, since it requires mouse-driven controls. Flash websites need to be updated either way, and you might as well write an HTML version while you’re at it.

When people say they use Flash on their mobile, I imagine it’s mostly for video.

guest

Its the ability to enter websites that require flash that most people gripe about. I couldn’t care less for flash itself, but if I need to get through flash to enter a web site, then lets just have that ability. For now, I have allot of sites that I cannot enter with my Ipad and Iphone and have to wait till I get to my macbook to surf.

Anonymous

i hope they at least announce the new iphone even if it does come out later than normal this year

John

Wonder how many Apple fanboys will think the iCloud bs they spew will be revolutionary? I’m sure they’ll make it cool in their own sort of way, but I find it hard they’ll make it much different than what’s been available for a long time now.

Bringit

John you must be super duper cool. The coolest of the cool. Damn you are cool.

John

Thx I guess. If you disagree, feel free to state why instead of that useless acrimonious sarcasm. I gave me fanboy statement then I even stated a compliment. Let’s hash this out if you think you’ve got something to prove..

Anonymous

i gave me some lucky charms?

John

It’s cool. Can see there are many kids here. Enjoy your summer ;)

Anonymous

In before every mobile device announced but not yet out is mysteriously delayed.

serpentor

Why? At this point iPhone is playing ketchup.

Is it going to include NFC? Been done.

4″ screen? Been done.

Dual core? Been done.

http://twitter.com/stickyicky97 stickyicky97

That’s technology for you. As soon as a computer is released, there is a better one with more features/specs released right behind it. So unless, Apple decides to open-up iOS to different device makers (not gonna happen), there will always be a new phone released within the yearly cycle with better specs. This doesn’t mean the iPhone is inferior by any means. Even with some of it’s flaws, the iPhone is still one of the best, if not the best, all-around phones on the market.

As for NFC, who cares. There aren’t enough places that even accept NFC payments to make this an issue…….and mass deployment is years away. A larger screen would be welcomed, but not if that results in a gi-normous device like the Droid X! bigger doesn’t always make sense or mean better. Now let’s get to dual-core. Until recently, no dual-core phones were on the market, so your argument to that is also irrelevant. What else you gonna knock? Lack of LTE? Every LTE device out there now sucks at battery life. Who wants a phone that’s LTE if it means they only get a few hours out of it? Not me. Like Apple, I’ll wait until the tech has matured and improved to give a great user experience.

Now back to your Droid hole!

serpentor

Mass deployment of NFC is years away? Maybe if we’re going by iPhone’s 1+ per year release cycle. With Android’s release schedule every OEMs’ phone models will be able to DOES it in 2 months. Yeah that’s a little Normish, but it also illustrates the advantages of the Android model. OEMs can update their hardware with new specs as soon as the technology becomes available.

On the merchant side Google already has partnerships that’s making it happen now.

But Jobs hasn’t given his blessing on NFC yet, so I know how it is.

serpentor

Yeah, LTE will drain the battery. So does making a call. So does having the screen on to play a game for 3 hours. So does using the GPS.

Why not just stay on EDGE? That’ll use less power than 3G.

Not everything you do needs LTE so turn it on when you need it. But you don’t even have that option, huh?

http://twitter.com/stickyicky97 stickyicky97

That’s technology for you. As soon as a computer is released, there is a better one with more features/specs released right behind it. So unless, Apple decides to open-up iOS to different device makers (not gonna happen), there will always be a new phone released within the yearly cycle with better specs. This doesn’t mean the iPhone is inferior by any means. Even with some of it’s flaws, the iPhone is still one of the best, if not the best, all-around phones on the market.

As for NFC, who cares. There aren’t enough places that even accept NFC payments to make this an issue…….and mass deployment is years away. A larger screen would be welcomed, but not if that results in a gi-normous device like the Droid X! bigger doesn’t always make sense or mean better. Now let’s get to dual-core. Until recently, no dual-core phones were on the market, so your argument to that is also irrelevant. What else you gonna knock? Lack of LTE? Every LTE device out there now sucks at battery life. Who wants a phone that’s LTE if it means they only get a few hours out of it? Not me. Like Apple, I’ll wait until the tech has matured and improved to give a great user experience.

Now back to your Droid hole!

Anonymous

ketchup? LOL!!!!!

Anonymous

Think ‘software’.

dcdeadbeat

Apple better give us stuff (like Google did at I/O) or I am going to stop going to WWDC. Developers need free stuff so we can make cool apps for their products. No free stuff, no apps. Do you hear that Apple?

Apple doesn’t have this problem to solve as both the customers and the money are there.

serpentor

Or, an alternate theory could be devs aren’t developing for Android tablets because HC just came out still in beta.

How many iPad specific apps were there when iPad came out?

Remind me why Apple talked up being able to use iPhone apps on iPad even though it looks shit?

Anonymous

1,000.

dcdeadbeat

Creating apps for the iPad seems to much like a day-job to pay the bills. All the cool kids are creating apps for Android.

Apple has a chance to turn around their bad mojo with developers. Come on Apple, developers create apps for your products because we have to, not because you are cool.

http://www.droiddoes.com/ Norm

Apple is dead in the water. No new phone? FAIL! DROID DOES bring out new phones every week FTW!

Anyone

Hey Norm, if peeps in here can’t read between lines in your posts, they need to call 911. You Apple lover, you!

http://twitter.com/stickyicky97 stickyicky97

Too bad it takes a new “Droid” phone being released every week to try and keep up with Apple. Seriously, I’m a tech geek, and I cannot even tell you which Droid phone is the “newest” or “best” on the market right now. It reminds me of the old Windows Phones days. Too many models to choose from dilutes their market. There are avid Android users that cannot work or tell you the difference between most of the different models around. Good luck kids!

serpentor

I know, choice is a bitch isn’t it? Life would be so much easier if it was controlled by one person who only gave us one way to do anything.

But now I just sound like a Maoist Commi.

Anonymous

You have a choice between an iPhone, Android device, WP7, BB, etc. Apple doesn’t force you to do anything, but of course it’s not as fun to write that in an internet post.

Hyperboles are fun, I know. Truthfully, though, Apple and Google just have different approaches, with merits each their own. Google employs a “shotgun” approach, utilizing many OEMs and trying to flood the market with their OS, which boosts their core ad business. Apple focuses their efforts on only a couple devices, and spends a lot of time fine-tuning them.

Anonymous

I got wet when I saw that picture.

http://twitter.com/FrankJL_ Francisco J. Lopez

Bring apps to the apple tv. PLEASE!! I finally got through the hump of convincing my wife why paying for dish network is a waste of money.

She is hooked on netflix. Next up hulu. Then i will drop my bill down to 8 for netflix + 8 for hulu. 16 bucks a month for all you can watch entertainment.

http://twitter.com/stickyicky97 stickyicky97

I’m with you on that one! AppleTV is in desperate need of an App store with all of the TV manufacturers releasing TV’s now with built-in app stores. I was actually a little jealous looking at a Samsung TV this weekend that had an app store with Hulu built in along with a dedicated FREE 3D movie app. Apple is gonna get beat at it’s own game if they don’t step it up. I’m still confused why Hulu won’t release an Airplay update of their current app or allow Apple to put a native app on the AppleTV? Maybe it’s Apple holding this up? All I know is every other TV and device has Hulu on it now, so the AppleTV should have a way of accessing it’s content.

http://twitter.com/stickyicky97 stickyicky97

I’m with you on that one! AppleTV is in desperate need of an App store with all of the TV manufacturers releasing TV’s now with built-in app stores. I was actually a little jealous looking at a Samsung TV this weekend that had an app store with Hulu built in along with a dedicated FREE 3D movie app. Apple is gonna get beat at it’s own game if they don’t step it up. I’m still confused why Hulu won’t release an Airplay update of their current app or allow Apple to put a native app on the AppleTV? Maybe it’s Apple holding this up? All I know is every other TV and device has Hulu on it now, so the AppleTV should have a way of accessing it’s content.

http://www.facebook.com/jinjo235 Adam Kilker

The release says that iCloud is POWERED by iOS5?!?!?!

Carmen

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DonRSD aka PSN DonVCorleone

GO STEVE!!!

http://about.me/brandonmccall brandonmccall

The lot of you were probably dying to join the debate team in high school. Tell the truth.

Anonymous

Like i’ve said before. iOS is an old outdated OS. It now has resorted to copy and play catchup on other OS’s (especially Android). Hilarious that Apple has now become what it once accused others companies of. An “Idea stealer”
– Widgets- proper notifications- proper multitasking- Cloud music/storage- NFC- Gestures- Etc, etc, etc. ALL BEEN DONE!

Anonymous

Gestures has been around on the Mac for awhile bring them to iOS is natural progression not copying. Voice commands were limited on iOS but they are not bringing Voice comands. They purchased and A.I. to build into the core of iOS. Widgets I could careless about, especially the ones on Android that showed it was sunny at 9pm at night.

http://www.facebook.com/applelover Tim Meesseman

None of those things are copying… that’s like saying Apple copied Nokia because they put a phone into the iPhone. What matters is how they’re implemented, and I guaranfuckingtee you that it won’t be done the same way Android or WebOS does it.

http://twitter.com/infostripe infostripe

Awesome.

Anonymous

another way for apple to control you and make money out of you… go for it guys!

Anonymous

You’re so right. I much rather surrender control of my entire life to google because they’re not evil and they give everything to me free!

Anonymous

looking forward to improved sync capabilities between Mac OS X Lion and iOS 5. I want to take a picture on my iphone and through iCloud, sync to aperture or iphoto right after i take it. If I’m working on a pages document, it should sync to my now iphone pages app so, if on the go, do a slight change, it automatically syncs it to my macbook’s pages app. same with my music purchases. If i am playing a game that is iphone and ipad compatible, it should sync my scores to my ipad and vise versa. Am I asking to much? I think it would make the user experience really fluid. user friendly and enjoyable.